Okura Sushi Bar & Grill

I LOVE Okura sushi! I have tried many different rolls here and have always been very happy. Everything always tastes fresh and NEVER smells fishy. The hana maki and the red dragon roll are my personal faves. My daughter likes to get the teriyaki chicken bento box with tempura shrimp. I like to sit at the sushi bar and the chefs are always very friendly. The wait staff are always there when you need them, but don’t hover. Very nice and clean inside. I eat here about 2 – 3 times a month for lunch.

We ordered to go, and it was done in about 15 minutes. Very good, even AFTER traveling with it for thirty minutes, which never does any chow any favors. Excited to try it fresh soon.
We ordered the Volcano, Dynamite, Spicy Cowboy, and Ninja rolls.

Blondie is my fav

I promised myself I would get a roll of sushi to lift my spirits some. I was thinking about hitting up Kang’s, but a friend recommended I try out Okura. I have seen it several times, but never been inside. I believe I remember someone telling me that they are also the owners of Phở’Nomenal.
The restaurant really tries to give the high end vibe, and it does an okay job of doing it. One thing that put the vibe off a bit was the loud machinery that sounded like it was sitting between the two bars — a sushi bar and a full bar that seats 6. I chose to sit at the former and enjoyed my meal for one looking out over the other two dining areas.
I like to think that with prices averaging $ 14/​special sushi roll, seating would be more comfortable. I didn’t really like the way the menu was set up. For one, it didn’t include all of the ingredients, such as roe, green onion, etc, but they do note this on the bottom of the page. They did, however, have a list to show what was fresh, cooked, or a combination of the two. To find the prices, you had to look at the separate paper menu. I’ve never really did like having to look at two different menus to get all the information I am looking for.
I ordered the yellow tail bonsai that promised of I: cucumber, jalapeño, and yellowtail O: avocado and shrimp. Throw in a little green onion and a ton of roe on top and the first piece barely fit into my mouth. After that, each piece seemed to be a different size. The roll wasn’t put together well and it was difficult to get each piece into my mouth without some part of it falling. The jalapeño to fish ratio was 1:2, so after 3 or 4 pieces I couldn’t handle the jalapeño any longer and started pulling it out of each bite.
The service that night was really good. I think the fact that they were pretty slow helped a bit. I try to take notes while I am at a restaurant alone and waiting on my food (maybe I should start doing this in my memos or something), and I’m pretty sure they caught me caught me doing so. When they brought my card back with the check, they offered me a Unilocal pen to sign with.
I definitely wasn’t impressed with my roll, so I doubt I’ll be back to try any of their other dishes.

I wouldn’t dine here again — I would do take out since my gf loves their «may Ave roll» (which is good)
I been going to sushi neko since 2003 — one of the things I order is the octopus salad. I ordered at okura, but it was over priced and barely had any octopus salad, a bunch of greens on the bottom. Their dessert menu is small. But 6.95 for ONLY banana tempura?!? With whipped cream … neko, you’ll get tempura banana with a scoop of ice cream and «whipped cream». It is better than saii

This place has an amazing and impressive sushi menu. Laid back, but classy dining area with white table cloths. Great saki. Our waitress was really great, and was very helpful and knowledgeable. I will definitely be back to this spot to try some other items on their extensive menu.
I definitely WON’T be eating any more of the quail eggs though. LOL This is just my opinion, but it’s basically rice rolled in sea weed (no problem so far), then a raw quail egg cracked on top. I don’t know what I was expecting, but when they were brought to the table, I thought… oh no, this could go either way. I’m the type of person that’ll try anything once. I ate the first of the 2 that I ordered… and it was BY FAR the most disgusting thing I have ever tried to eat, ever. Not exaggerating. I’m not taking any stars away for this because that’s on me. I ordered it, and it was fresh… I just couldn’t handle it. The flavor, texture, everything. The rice mixing with the raw egg as I chewed it made it turn to sticky paste, and the seaweed prevented it from going anywhere. It was a nightmare. My eyes were watering because it was really hard to swallow. I was with a date so I had to kinda keep it together, but I barely made it through. My date of course thought this was the funniest thing she’s ever seen. I left the second one on the plate, obviously. If that description is a little dramatic, I apologize, but I thought I’d better mention it if you’re reading this and have never had one. The waitress told me «they’re good»

I really enjoyed this place. I end up traveling all over the country every week on business and I was impressed. This is an authentic family owned sushi spot with very unique and creative options for rolls. I had the BasAss, and the Mountain rolls, and both were delicious. Mike the owner is a sweet dude!

Really disapponted. There was more wasabi on my plate than tuna in my tuna roll. Our specialty rolls were OK but really heavy handed on the rice. I got a Rock N Roll and it was rice kinda smeared with avocado, slivers of cucumber, and the tiniest pieces of unagi. If I wanted to just eat rice I would have stayed at home and saved myself a lot of money. Next time I’ll drive to Grand house. Less expensive and double the fish.

Finally. I know where to go to get fresh hamachi sashimi in OKC. So good that Peachy and I had to eat two orders. The unagi was great, too. Definitely going back. We already love the phở place next door — same owners, called Phở Nomenal.

Great place!
Fresh hamachi sashimi! I’m impressed!
The miso soup doesn’t taste Japanese but it’s good.
Spicy tuna hand roll and unagi nigiri are super yummy :)

Easily my favorite sushi place. The fru fru places don’t come close. I love their ginger dressing on their salad. The rolls are fantastic.

Whoooooooa! Expensive, but really really fresh sushi. I love the rolls, though construction around May is making it a pain to get to at the moment.

Very nice restaurant. It was pretty empty when we arrived, but their promise about quality and fresh food was kept for sure. I had the spicy run, spider roll, miso soup, and salmon nigiri. All wee ever tasty. The service was pretty good.
Overall I wasn’t completely wowed, but they have reasonable prices, good sushi, and a nice clean restaurant. It satisfied my sushi craving, and I would go back if I crave sushi again in Oklahoma.

Love the environment, the service, and the food. They will customize your sushi to suit your tastes even when your requests aren’t regular menu items. I love this place.

The spicy cowboy is my favorite. Would recommend okura to everyone. Never too busy, and the service is always top notch. They also offer happy hour where all rolls are half price. They do seem to have weird hours. There has been several days I have stopped in for lunch and they were closed.

This place looks nice, but really that’s all I could say that stands out. I went here with Rachel S. for her sister’s birthday meal and while not bad, I wasn’t impressed. Not being a sushi fan I got the chicken hibachi plate which was an amazing deal at the time because it was a special on Fridays. Even at the regular price it was a good deal, but it just didn’t wow me.
I really wasn’t impressed, but maybe it’s because of the fact I’m just not a big sushi eater. There are other places with better choices and possibly equally as affordable and enjoyable sushi.

I think this place may be a hit and miss situation. The atmosphere and service is good but the second time I ate there really wasn’t as good as the first.

The most redeeming qualities I can mention really have nothing to do with the food. The service was good (friendly without hovering and attentive). I liked the look of the place and the chairs were comfortable enough. Okura is mainly a place for sushi; they have noodle dishes and such, but the focus is on sushi. I appreciated that while the menu didn’t post the prices for sushi, the sheet of paper used to order the sushi does (so you just mark what rolls you want/​how many orders) and they take that.
The sushi as a whole: 2.5÷5
Salmon nigiri ²⁄₅: I like some good salmon, but I’m also quick to «meh» just decent or mediocre salmon. This nigiri was bland and the rice wasn’t neatly together.
Spider roll ²⁄₅: Decent is the word of the day, folks. The shrimp inside of it was bland and the cucumber tasted off. Again, sloppy.
Sassy ¹⁄₅: Meh. Tasteless and overdone with cucumber.
Lady Love ³⁄₅: What redeemed this roll was the lemon inside giving it an actual flavor. But once again, their salmon is mediocre.
Tootsie ²⁄₅: Another bland roll.

I probably would have never noticed Okura if a friend hadn’t mentioned it to me the other day, it just never «okura’d» to me that it even existed (see what I did there?! Okura’d? Sorry, point taken).
My main knock on Okura is the atmosphere, it isn’t really my cup of tea. The somewhat awkward, large, open space doesn’t really create the feeling that you’re dining in a restaurant, but rather creates a cafeteria type feel. I think that’s mainly because there aren’t really dividers to separate the restaurant into distinct sections, so you’re basically all dining in one large room. Not terrible per say, just not the comfortable, intimate atmosphere I tend to desire when I’m in the mood to eat sushi.
Speaking of, their sushi is decent. Nothing was terrible, but nothing was really amazing, pretty middle of the road here. We did enjoy the ahi tower, but for these prices, there are simply better sushi restaurants in the OKC metro to choose from.
Overall Grade: B–

Grabbed to go at Okura the other day. Much like Joe P, I think it is odd that they don’t provide their very basic sushi menu anywhere online. Their to go menus look like they were made from a copy of a copy of a copy, which we all know from Multiplicity is not super sharp. I could barely read it. Just odd.
A friend and I split the Hawaii roll, rock and roll and edamame. The sushi was fine. It wasn’t great but not bad, either. It wasn’t super flavorful, even though I feel like those two rolls should have been pretty tasty. They also came apart a little bit when I tried to pick it up with my chopsticks. They charge an extra dollar for soy paper over nori, blurg. Apparently this is an Oklahoma sushi thing. Restaurants don’t charge for soy paper anywhere else I’ve ever eaten sushi.
Meh. If I’m on that side of town and have a sudden, unexpected and super intense sushi craving I might go again, but probably not. There’s so much good sushi in this town, I’m not inclined to frequent the mediocre.